558 - "Wages Of Fear" Wasn't A Good Title Either, Water Drill, Acme Pompeii, Sutton Schnoz

[9:57 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Watched "Sorcerer" last night

Seen it before.. remake of “Wages of Fear”

It bombed because everyone thought the title would be a sword-and-sorcery film... and the first 10 minutes are all in French so others thought it'd be a foreign film and left before getting to the good parts

It's a great movie and has a great Tangerine Dream soundtrack

They have to drive a bunch of unstable nitroglycerin through the jungle to an oil well fire

[9:59 AM] 

Loved “Wages of Fear”

[9:59 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Me too

[9:59 AM] 

Never saw “Sorcerer” though

[9:59 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's a worthy remake

Directed by William Friedkin who did “The Exorcist” and some other stuff

With Roy Scheider... I don't recognize anyone else in the cast

It flopped both commercially and critically at the time but now is considered a cult classic, if not just a classic

[11:14 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Why is this film so named?

[11:17 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Sorcerer is the name of one of the trucks

They should've called it something else

The truck name is never even mentioned, and there's another truck too with a different name, why not pick that one?

But "The Wages of Fear" sounds like some kind soviet propaganda film title so i wouldn't have done that either

[11:30 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yeah

“Nitro Jungle?”

Nitro Convoy

Big Bang Road

[11:32 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

Ride of Death

[11:32 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Don't Sneeze

Unstable Package

[11:33 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Speed 3

I imagine Keanu running the trucks down and jumping onto the windshield

[11:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Slowly

[11:34 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

"There's nitroglycerin on the truck!  One wrong move, the truck will explode!" 

"We know! Get off!"

[11:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

So a prequel to “Speed”

[11:38 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

They should've had Scheider look at the nitroglycerin and go, "You're gonna need a more stable truck!"

[11:38 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

SMILE YOU SON OF A BITCH

[11:38 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

[11:38]

That was a true LOL

I had to hit mute

[11:38 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Same here

[11:48 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Riding through the jungle suddenly they hear a sound as they get closer and closer they can make out what it is, somebody is singing,  Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies”

"Yea see nitro truck shes got dull headlights like the foggy sea side on a sunny day."

[11:54 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yeah the USS Indianapolis monologue... would it then be about the Exxon Valdez?

"2 Alaskan rocks slammed into her side chief."

[12:34 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

“This truck is named Sorcerer, this one is call Breakdown.”

[12:36 PM] 

(dispatcher) "Well...you can choose from Sorcerer...or good old No Suspension here."

(Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the cab, singing in the truck cab) "Oh we're off on the road of detonation!  We certainly will splash a-rouuund!"

[12:38 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Smokey and the Bandit - Nitro Run .

That would have made Smokey and the Bandit more interesting

[12:42 PM] 

(Big Enos) "We're having a little Oil Drillin' party this weekend.  We want you to drive to Texarkana and pick up 200 cases of nitroglycerine and get it back here.  If you make it in time we'll pay you $70."

[9:03 AM] 

"Plus people like to say 'Wankel Engine'."

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/car-technology/a7103/mazda-wankel-rotary-engine/

[9:07 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Looks complicated

[9:09 AM] 

A Wankel?  (wankel wankel wankel)

Less going on it in than a "regular" engine

I saw a see-through one running on YouTube a few weeks back.  It was interesting

[9:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I still can't understand the uhh, Archimedes spiral or whatever it's called

screw

[9:27 AM] 

What about it?

[9:31 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Just hard to fathom how it works

[9:32 AM] 

Well, just looking at it you'd think the water would all rush back out. And it would if it was vertical and not spinning very fast.

But at an angle...it makes these basins for the fluid at the bottom of each equal segment of the screw

[9:34 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The screw isn't actually moving though

[9:34 AM] 

Yes it is...you crank it.

[9:34 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The screw rotates but it doesn't move up. It just turns.

And the water moves... yet it stays at the bottom?

[9:39 AM] 

Ah...well the pieces stay in place but the coil rotates around the axis

Like...hold a screw in your hand...toss it around...nothing happens.

Put it in a material and turn and it pulls in (or pushes out)

So... you’re drilling a hole in water

Instead of pulling the wood bits out of a board with a drill, you're pulling bits of water out of a tub

[9:41 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Oh, I get it

So like screwing into a board... only imagine the board is moving and the screw is stationary

[9:42 AM] 

Well the difference is fluid vs solid

Wood doesn't flow. 

So the screw, in motion, digs in.

Water does flow, so the screw, in motion, stays in place and the water "digs" out.  A drill.

[9:43 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Yes

[9:44 AM] 

Air?  Basically, nothing really happens...Spin it really fast and you get a terrible fan.

[9:44 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

https://media0.giphy.com/media/xT0xeJpnrWC4XWblEk/giphy.gif

[9:45 AM] 

Heh

That was fun...got another?

[9:46 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

uhh. Bubbles in boiling water. But let's save that for another time

[2:23 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I didn't read the article but i'm just laughing at the pictures https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/6403361/pompeii-skeleton-volcanic-rock-discovery/

[2:23 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Legs sticking out

[2:24 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

“Pompeii Man Perishes In Wile E Coyote Style Death”

[2:44 PM] 

That poor Pompeii guy is sadly hilarious

[2:44 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

The last thing that passed through his brain before that boulder was "at least nobody will ever find out how i died."

[2:45 PM] 
(Parents at oracle after birth) "The gods have decreed that your son will amuse thousands and his image will bring smiles across the whole world."

(Parents in old age, looking at their super dull accountant son)  "That oracle was full of sh-t! 

"We paid a lot for that reading too. What's that rumbling noise?"

[2:48 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's great that it has the appearance that his legs made an indentation into the rocks under him

[2:48 PM] 

Wile E Coyote indeed

[2:49 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Hello my baby! Hello my honey! Hello my rag time gal! THUD

[2:50 PM]  "Geologists estimate the victim somehow ran off a cliff trying to escape...stood in space surrounded by volcanic clouds for several seconds dipping his foot down into the open air below before falling at least 500'."

[2:50 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

His body started falling but his head stayed in place for several more seconds, with his neck elongating

[2:51 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I keep seeing a dancing skeleton then thud

[2:51 PM] 

"A modern person would have been shattered into a billion pieces...but ancient people were tougher than us.  If it wasn't for the rock that came down after..."

"Found with the body was a tiny parasol and a sign that said "Utinan non!"

[2:52 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

[10:14 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Did the Saxons/vikings possibly have neat little mustaches? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Sutton_Hoo_helmet_%28replica%29.jpg

[10:15 AM] 

Never thought about it in the hundred times I've seen that helmet, but it's not really an impressive mustache, is it?

https://www.google.com/search?q=schnoz+glasses&client=firefox-b-1&sa=X&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ved=0ahUKEwjv4aPs07LbAhVNnlkKHfHBBnYQsAQILA&biw=1501&bih=835#imgrc=_

"Say the secret rune and you get to sack the village foist!"

[10:19 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's a Mike Ditka mustache

The wiki article on the Sutton Hoo helmet is probably the most detailed article on the site

Explicitly detailing every fragment found and how it was made/forged

557 - Gold-Filled Age Comics, Tesla Died So You Could Waste Time Online, Maybe The Family Name Was "Thousand" And 10 Of Them Died

[10:26]

Augh...You are making me dredge up old ideas like "Unnatural Woman"

(sings "'cause you make me feel like Unnatural Woman...")

[10:27 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Unnatural Woman? What is that bulge I see at your crotch? Is that cod piece? 

[10:27 AM] 

She...is actually a heroine. Unlike the murderous Miss Anthropy

Opponents, of course

[10:28 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

There's a superhero – The Cod Piece

Has a super bionic codpiece

[10:29 AM] 

"Ware, evil doers! Surrender now or I – The Cod Piece – will bring you (beat) Piece...on Earth!"

(stunned silence) "Did he really say that?"

"PU"

"So is he supposed to a fish guy, or...?"

"It's a dick joke...look at hi-"

"SILENCE, VILLAINS!"

[10:30 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Kite Man!

[10:30 AM] 

Exists. Bleh.

[10:30 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

yes

[10:31 AM] 

There was a period where they were just trying to fill books with original characters. Didn't matter if they made any sense at all.  Cartoons on paper. 

Some had higher standards than others of course

[10:42 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

“I am The Cobbler!”

[10:42 AM] 

"Shoes or dessert?"

[10:42 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

“Shoes. Come over here you have a loose sole! HAHAHAH!!!

[10:42 AM] 

"Oh...(ignores, looks disappointed)"

[10:43 AM] 

(Golden Age comics producer) "We need something new...different!" 

"Uh...(looks though book on animals)  Thompson's Gazelle Man?"

"Huh?  Why not just Gazelle Man?"

"(points in book)"

"Oh...huh... Thompson's Gazelle.  (shrug)  Have a pitch for me by Friday."

[10:45 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Wild Ass Man

Can't we just call him Donkeyman?

No I really want this to come from Africa – Wild Ass Man

[10:45 AM] 

Nice battle cry

"HOOOOOOONNNNN-heeeeeeeeee!!!!!"

[10:46 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Has a very strong kick

Police to The Cobbler  "All across the city, change is being given wrong" 

Cobbler "Hmm I see. This sounds like Short Change is at it again."

[10:54 AM] 

Funny

I did a hero called "Exact Change" once

Both for the cent symbol he used, and for "his mission" to assertively correct/change things. 

[10:57 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I am Alabaster

[10:58 AM] 

Alabastard

"Albert Bastard had enough one day..."

[11:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Melancholy

Extremely powerful, just not very motivated to do the hero job

[11:07 AM] 

Too depressed to save the world?

(Villain sitting with arm around Melancholy's shoulder) "Look, it's OKAY if you try to stop me.  I want you to stop me...REALLY.  Just punch me a little. Just a little – you'll feel better, I swear.  I don't really want to rule the city...it's...it's just that (wipes away tear)...my mom, she's so...you know how they are...(deep breath, holding back a sob)... I try. (cracks) I do! I really try; but nothing I do is ever good enough, you know? God! I promised myself I wouldn't get like this again..."

[11:10 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The villain has to be opposite of him

Excitinator

[11:11 AM] 

Dresses like a cheerleader?

[11:11 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yep

I see Melancholy dressed like a goth

[11:08 AM]  Mr. Oleo: 

lol

very entertaining

Mr. Brown would obtain super hero powers after being bitten by the beaver he said he could beat in a fight. He'd have incredible swim speed and could dam a raging river in mere hours. No wood would be safe near him.

[11:09]

No wood is safe!

LOL

[11:13 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

And i could take down Thanos

BOOOM

Just like Squirrel Girl

[11:15 AM]  Mr. Oleo: 

It's sad that life doesn't work that way.

[11:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I am Cupball

I use my cup and ball games to apprehend villains

That's as bad as Kite Man

lol

[11:40 AM]  Mr. Oleo: 

Stevia Man. He's a bit of an anti-hero because he can sweeten any material he touches without adding any calories but you have to be ok with him dipping his finger into your food or drink to do so.

[11:43 AM] 

Ewwwwww

(reconstruction)  "Stand back citizen!  (motions dunking finger) 

"Eww!  What are you doing?  Stop that!" 

[11:46 AM] Mr. Oleo:

Then he tastes it.  "Say...that's not so bad."

[12:29 PM] 

All this exchange with you in it, of course, raises the point that we miss Ms. Rose as a conversation partner.  She was great.  :)

[12:30 PM]  Mr. Oleo: 

She's now selling "laser pew pew" lenses to various companies. Handling their orders and such. She really likes it there.

They custom make laser lenses and housing for them and sell them to all sorts of places. Military, commercial airlines, assembly plants, etc.

[12:35 PM] 

Coo

Super villain, "The Marker" – who definitely isn't me though we are somehow never seen together – now knows where to get his "Hurt Real Bad Ray" pieces.

[12:36 PM]  Mr. Oleo: 

Yes and they are slightly radioactive too so that always helps.

[12:36 PM] 

Bonus

[9:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The Tesla stuff I was watching was about if he was murdered and his death ray

I was thinking about his wireless power solution, wondering what would happen if it was implemented across the world

[9:11 AM] 

Well...it would have F'd up modern electronics

Meaning we'd either have an entirely different technology, or we'd still be stuck in the miraculous "Electric Age"

[9:12 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

The planetary effects it could have, also

On the magnetic field, for instance

Would it hurt it, or add another layer?

lol

[9:13 AM] 

All in all, I'm guessing Westinghouse's greed made our world possible

I'd say there's a time travel story there...except you couldn't have developed a technological time machine under those conditions.

And yes, there's the health/environment questions of exposure to that kind of energy all over the world.

[9:16 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

right

That is kinda what i was pondering

[1:37 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

first one under "notable incidents" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooning#Notable_incidents

[1:37 PM] 

10000?

In 80AD?

From a small panic?

[1:40 PM] 

"Tommy" FlaNAYgin Josephus - "Yeah and they ran...they stampeded...yeah.  They stampeded and a guy...10 guys...10 THOUSAND guys...were hurt - KILLED... Yeah.  That's the ticket.  But you won't have heard about it, it happened a year...it happened...16 years ago.  Yeah. It happened right over...FAR away."

[1:41 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

If it was a busy day for pilgrims... It could be possible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_stampedes

Some of those death tolls are insane

[1:53 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Well in that time a small injury would do it

Buncha broken bones

[1:59 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

Even the human stampedes from the 2000s have hundreds of dead

Obviously my agoraphobia is just an evolutionary defense mechanism

[2:00 PM] 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Jerusalem#1st_century_Judea

Considering these - ehem - "slightly" different numbers...  Good ol' Joe is full of shit.

[2:02 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

So probably a few hundred died in the riot/stampede, and no more than 1000

[2:03 PM] 

Probably

[2:03 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

There is no way 1/6th of the city died in a panic. The streets would've been paved with bones

[2:03 PM] 

Quite the sensationalist

[2:08 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

"Well that guy there, he died 2 times. And this one over here died 4 times."

[2:08 PM] 

I could see a "riot" that resulted in factions killing each other. I could see a massacre.

Running from cops? Nooooooope.

[2:10 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

It's interesting that Jerusalem was smaller 150 years ago than it was 2000 years ago

[2:10 PM] 

To put it in even more perspective, I JUST happened to have looked up the US casualties for every war/action we've participated in.

And...well...those people were actively TRYING to kill each other over long periods of time.  Go have a look

556 - "I've Gotta Have More Slap Bass", "A Santorum Says What?", Fly Totem, Who Would Kill As Batman?

[3:19 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

I had a dream that was apparently significant enough (at the time) i woke up and jotted it down in my phone

I was walking up (street) towards the water tower. Somewhere up there i went into a house and Metallica was in there practicing and let me jam with them.  I had a bass with me and started playing along, but they got mad at me because their bass player was already there and i kept doing slap bass to differentiate from the other guy

[3:20 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

“Sorry I thought this was Red Hot Chili Peppers, my bad.”

[3:20 PM]  Mr. Blue: 

lol

End of dream

They were basically booing me while they were playing themselves

In hindsight i didn't need to write it down

[3:23 PM] 

Metallica with Slap Bass

[3:23 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

ra ra re re mix

slap slap slap   take me to the other side

slap slap slap slap

I'm going to put my RHCP CD in when I get in the car later

Enter Sandman with slap base would be awesome

[10:27 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8k0g1g/mostik_the_cat_that_beat_putin_in_the_ceremonial/

[10:38 AM] 

2 weeks from now, Trump will give the infamous "Mostik" speech.

(...Nixon joke...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech

"All I'm keeping from Putin is this little cat..."

[10:46 AM] 

Honestly, if I was this guy, I would have changed my name and moved somewhere quiet and anonymous years ago.  I certainly would NEVER go where anyone could ask me questions and record my answers. - https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/watch-rick-santorum-falls-apart-trying-defend-trump-slurring-immigrants-animals/

[10:47 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Santorum apparently graduated from Butler?

[10:48 AM] 

He's been a guaranteed fool for any interviewer for...a decade or more?

[10:48 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

And nobody around there even gives a shit... He's unpopular even in his deep-red hometown

[10:49 AM] 

He really has to be incredibly stupid. 

The politics version of Brick from “Anchorman”

Looks Ok in a suit and can talk, so seeks out cameras

An American Monty Python twit-in-suit recurring character

[10:50 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

i think the media thinks "ahh this guy can connect with middle America conservatives" but nobody likes him

[10:54 AM] 

"Mr. Santorum...a-sphincter says...what?" 

"Oh!  I love that joke.  Ok.  'What?'"

"(baffled) Yeah... so... A sphincter...says...'what'?"

"Ha ha!  Funny every time.  Ok!  'What?'."

"Nevermind... I'll ask you about Trump."

"Hehe  'What?' about him?"

[1:39 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Scout crisis averted - we are going only for the day on Saturday

yay!

lol

Less stress

[1:42 PM] 

Yes!

"Today we're going to teach you haw to make an umbrella out of dandelions and sticks."

"That's impossible!"

(hands Den Leader badge)  "Good job."

[1:46 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I look at it this way – 7 year olds wouldn't pay attention long enough to teach them anything good about camping in bad weather

All they care about is when can I cook a hot dog and eat marshmallows

When they are Weblo age then I think we can do something like that

[1:47 PM] 

"Welcome to Campout of the Flies, boys!" 

(rolls up window...drives away...)

[1:59 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Come back a week later

See the head of a pig on stick, not sure where it came from

Suddenly wooden spears come flying out of the woods at you

[2:13 PM] 

Hehe

[2:14 PM]  Mr. Brown.: 

I read that book in school. Not sure i remember all of it though

[2:15 PM] 

It's not pleasant. 

Take a bunch of boys of varying emotional intelligence.  Add one dork with shaman powers and PTSD...

Shake well

I suppose as a shaman myself, I have to caveat that last bit with "add one dork who has shamanic abilities he doesn't understand and he freaks people out."

I have doubts the author intended it to come off like that.

(spirit guides) "Simon, if you don't do something, this situation is going to become complete Hell.  We've led you to this place to give you guidance and visions of what will happen so-"

"AUGH!!! The LORD of the FLIES TALKS to me!"

(spirits) “Simon, it's just --”

“AUGH!!! The BEASTIE!!!”

(spirits) "SIMON IT'S JUST A DEAD GUY! CALM DOWN!"

[9:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

So I was thinking about how awesome Michael Keaton's Batman fighting is

He can't move his head, so its all rigid

[9:06 AM] 

Like a knight in armor

[9:06 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

yep

Yet he can still kick their ass

lol

Moves head with shoulders

Which gave it a more powerful looking effect

[9:09 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

He kind of uses the rigidness to his advantage

It makes it look like he's aware of his peripheral and just doesn't *need* to look around

[9:10 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

yes

My favorite scene in the movie is when he goes crazy in front of the Joker

as Bruce when he uses the tray to protect himself

“You wanna get nuts?”

LOL

[9:26 AM] 

I like the lean in and whisper "I know who you are"

[9:26 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

I forget, was he intentionally trying to provoke him so he could get shot and then fake death and then escape?

[9:27 AM] 

He was probably trying to give Vicki a chance to break for it but she didn't leave.

If Bob and Joker had turned to stop her Bruce woulda clocked them. But 10 feet away is 100 feet away into a point blank gun without a distraction.

[9:28 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

But as Bruce Wayne?

He can't go around beating up villains as BW even if he could

[9:28 AM] 

Respected community member?

Gold

He'd be a hero

He got credit for something heroic as plain Bruce in one of the other ones, i think.

[9:29 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

In Nolan's Batman he would either make sure nobody could see him as BW or if he was saving the day as BW he would pretend it was an accident

In the Dark Knight he crashed his Lamborghini into a police vehicle that was about to run into an ambush... but pretended he just ran a stop light because he was joy riding

[9:34 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Yes he is trying to keep this playboy rep as Bruce to have a good cover

like Psssh he could never be Batman

[9:34 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Gordon, pulling him out of the wreckage: "That's a very brave thing you did Mr. Wayne." "What's that, trying to catch the light?"

"You weren't protecting the van?"

"Why, who's in it?"

That was before Gordon knew he was Batman

[9:35 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Right

[9:35 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

That's an interesting element of Nolan's Batman that they didn't really do in others it seems. Bruce willing to tarnish himself and his family name for the sake of the city

or people in general

[9:35 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Nolan's was all about the blurring two sides thing

The Val Kilmer one was about him being crazy

Clooney was a good Bruce though the move sucked

[9:37 AM]  Mr. Blue:

I think he was a good Bruce but not a good Batman

[9:39 AM] 

Hard to imagine no one looking and saying "Oh, it's Bruce Wayne"

[9:40 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

If you were rebooting Batman, right now, starting with an origin story or at least a younger BW/Batman, who would you pick for a franchise?

[9:41 AM] 

So you're asking "What actor is both old enough to believe...fit enough to pull off both physical characters, and able to act well enough to fool people who wouldn't hear and see "Clooney" (for example) as both

Hmm, maybe Adam Driver?  Too on the nose?

[10:05 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

Since Burton's Batman was also his most mainstream, studio-influenced film to that point, he probably had to dial down the violence and weirdness but then he dialed it back up in Batman Returns

[10:06 AM] 

Skipped right out on that "Batman doesn't kill" rule right away though

LOT a villains and shady folk died in those.

[10:10 AM]  Mr. Brown.: 

Batman " I don't kill, on purpose"

[10:11 AM] 

Yeeeeaaaahhhhh...I think he kinda did...

Don't forget the bombs in the Smilex factory

How many dozen techs and workers bought it there, to say nothing of the chemical spill damage

[10:12 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

heh

[10:13 AM] 

(finishes calculations...) "Yeah...I'm done with this.  Acceptable losses."  (Fires up the Batmobile and checks the I-Don't-Kill autocannons and bombs)

(tug of conscience...) "I could give them a warning to get out...   ...nah..."

[10:21 AM]  Mr. Blue: 

The irony would be that Batman's indiscriminate killings / maimings would keep creating new villains for him to defeat

Either the people he's beating up or maybe their kids or something

Some random guy gets his arms blown off in a Batman explosion.. doesn't die.. gets bionic arms.. vows revenge as The Claw or something

[10:23 AM] 

I was going to write a story like that a long time ago.  The successful disguised hero attracts people who want to beat him at his game. Crime escalates because of the hero's efforts.